Art & Architecture

Nicolas Poussin

A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painter

Paperback

Price:
$80.00/£68.00
ISBN:
Published:
Aug 15, 2023
1968
Pages:
776
Size:
8.5 x 11 in.
Illus:
536 b/w illus.
Main_subject:
Art & Architecture
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In this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), addressing the artist’s entire oeuvre alongside his theory of art. Blunt shows why Poussin holds a central place in the great French humanist line that produced Racine, Molière, Voltaire, the Parnassians, and Mallarmé. At the same time, he examines how Poussin looks back to Raphael and ancient Rome, while pointing forward to Ingres, Cézanne, the Cubists, and Picasso.